Thursday, 31 January 2013

Again sorry for the delay in updates, I have 3 battle reports to upload however I have pleasantly been working my way through plenty of troops this month and since I have the painting bug I decided to keep on painting and will do the basing later.

So far I have pretty much completed a foot battalion and a kurassier regiment as well as continuing re-basing the figures I picked up from Darren.

1st up I managed to knock out a Silesian landwehr battalion ready for army painter. If you have a good look you will spot an impostor in the battalion, he will be added to a future East Prussian battalion.

I also have my Silesian kurassier regiment completed and done with army painter ready for their final highlights. I will have to wait until I have a couple of free days to get them finished off.

I converted a line lancer officer into a mounted landwehr officer for my Silesians as they will be the 1st battalion. I added some whiskers to make him look more like an older landwehr gent as well as cap with cross. maybe I could have sanded the saddle down a bit more before making the fur?

Also a wee conversion of a mounted line officer to a light infantry colonel for my nephew David's legere 1st battalion. I know he still has the high boots but I figures on mounted duty it was acceptable?

And here are my 1st battalion of the 1st Silesian regiment. I spent a couple of days turning them into my own style and added in a few troops. All they need now is static grass.

I'm very happy to add them into my collection and hopefully I will have the final Silesian battalion finished soon.

Wednesday, 16 January 2013

Sorry for the lack of updates, I am working my way through a Silesian Kurassier regiment at the moment as well as a few other bits and pieces however time is pretty short so my on line visits have been fleeting. I also have a couple of battle reports from games before the festive season to upload at some point.

Thankfully I do have some cool pics to post. I've exchanged a couple of emails recently with Craig from Australia who is a fellow 15mm Napoleonic fan from over on the GdB forum. Craig sent over a few pics of his work and has very kindly let me show them on my blog. Loads of inspiration for anyone looking to build a Prussian army of the 1812-15 period!!!

1st up the Brandenburg hussars, cracking painting!

Craig has used deep blues on all his figures and it works really well. This is what I always intend to do when sitting down to paint my Prussians but almost always chicken out with the excuse of scale!

HELLO AND WELCOME

Like most figure painters and wargamers I have a large stash of unpainted lead hidden around my house and the way I see it I maybe have 15 to 20 good years of painting left in me. My goal is to get 1/2 of this mountain finished. My blogs will be a record of my efforts.